ST. HELENS MTST. FRIDAY. JULY 7, 1Q16
rOVXlKI 1881.
Issued F.very Friday ly
TilK MIST I'VHI.ISIII.MJ COMPANY.
S. U MOOHHKAl) IMitor
S. C. MOKTOX ManiiBor
Entered as second-class matter. Jauuary 10th.
1912, at the l'ostoltlco at St. Holous, Oregon, under the
act of March 3rd, 1S79.
SlllSCKlP'JION' KATFS:
One Year $1.50
Six Months 75
Advertising rates nuulc known on application.
COVXTV OFFICIAL PAPF.K.
PAVING
The countv roail from llio down town dis
trict to the railroad station is badly in need of
repairs and' doubtless the County Court ex
pects to soon make these repairs. As a mat
ter of fact, repairs have been made on this
road for the last six vears and still we have
no road. It is impossible just at this time
for the Mist to find out how much money has
been spent on this one piece of road, but we
are informed that some $2,500 was spent last
year. If this is true, and we think it is, we
do not think we are netting anv return for
the monev. for while we have a thoroughfare
we have no road. We are informed that some
contracting concern has offered to lav a hard
surfaced road 16 feet wide for $2,200 a mile.
If the hard surface they oiler is good, it would
certainly be economy for the County Court to
take up the proposition for it is just as foolish
to keep on putting a little screenings in the
thousand and one pot holes on this road,
which the autos throw out the next dav, as it
would be to attempt to bail out the Columbia
river with a bucket. Moreover, this little
stretch of the county's highway is probably
used more than anv other piece of road in the
county, and it is the Court's duty to make of
it a real highway.
DEMOCRATIC INEPTITUDE
Nothing better illustrates democratic un
fitness for government than the way in which
the partv iii power is handling naval prepared
ness." With a serious menace of war hanging
over the country for many months, the ad
ministration and congress has done practic
ally nothing to make ready for war. Though
evervone knows it takes years to build capi
tal ships and months to train crews to man
them, the democrats have waited until Mr.
Wilson has brought us to the verge of open
hostilities with Mexico before considering any
genuine increase in our naval strength. The
bill passed by the house against the protest of
every wide-awake member made no provision
for battleships and for only five battle cruis
ers. It would have increased the personnel
by only 11,000 men. Now the administration
proposes to insist that the senate amend the
bill to provide for two battleships of the
dreadnaught class, four battle cruisers 'ami an
increase of 20.7(H) men in the personnel. That
is very good so far as it goes, but even it is
not sufficient Tit this time. And if Mr. Wilson
goes to war with Mexico this slightly enlarged
program of construction " will avail nothing
in the struggle. If the democrats had any
foresight, anv practical sense, they would
have been building ships and training, men
months past. This sudden enterprise smacks
of the IJrvan folly of raising an army of a
million volunteers when an enemv has landed
on our shores. What the United States should
have is the means to prevent anv such land
ing. Pittsburgh Gazette.
WE OUT-GREEK THE GREEKS
American boys even city boys even New
York boys are often better developed physi
cally than the ancient Greeks. And every rec
ord of the ancient Greeks but one the broad
jump with weights, which isn't practiced to
any extent has been broken by New York
city school boys. This was discovered recent
ly when sixty boys equal to the best of the
Greeks were needed for a Shakespeare masque
at the great out-door stadium of the college of
the city of New York.
It was no long and discouraging task to
find these boys. On the contrary, 2(X) applied
at the first opportunity. Practically all of
them not only met but surpassed the best of
the ancient Greek standards both in measure
ments and in physical tests. The sixtv who
had most time for rehearsals were chosen.
Civilization, which has freed us from the
superstitions of exposure and torture in de
veloping strength and courage, has, of course,
brought with it possibilities of ease and soft
ness unknown to earlier peoples. Put the
advantages of sanitation, better food, and bet
ter knowledge of how to live seem to have
more than compensated for any of the dis
advantages. ARMY SNOBBISHNESS
The army caste system, which maintains
an unbridgeable social gulf between officers
ami men, has disappeared from the British
army, under the stress of heavy losses and the
necessiiy for officering a great volunteer army.
It disappeared from the French army at the
very beginning of the war. It has gone from
the Russian army and other European armies.
Only in Germany and the United States are
the rigid distinctions of military caste still ob
served, says the Oregon Statesman.
One of the valuable by-products of service
in Mexico is likely to be the upsetting of this
absurd system which has developed in time
of peace. It is wholly contrary to the spirit
of American life. Our army, aside from the
necessities of discipline, ought to be as demo
cratic as our civilian life. And it probably will
be, if the Mexican campaign entails the rais
ing of additional forces and protracted service
in the field of large numbers of volunteers.
The presence of the national guard, and its
absorption into the regular annv, will be a
powerful factor in this demoralization.
ilian troops will not swallow the arrogance
which, according to annv tradition, goes prop
erlv with gold braided uniforms. The guards
men and the new volunteers will laugh at
snobbishness. And llie endurance of common
hardships and perils will have a wholesome
tendency in the same direction.
Hereafter it will probably be possible lot
an American annv officer to be friendly and
sociable to his enlisted men. when off dul.
without incurring the scorn of his brother ofli
cers for making a "vulgar exh'bition of democracy."
The Gem Theater
PROFESSIONAL
CARDS
SUBLIME AND RIDICULOUS
As : national snectaele. that Oregon inven
tion, the presidential primary, proved to be
sublime and ridiculous.
It was sublime in the sense that it recorded
accurately the aspirations of the majority ol
the republican voters for the nomination of
Charles K. Hughes for president.
It was ridiculous in that it provided tin
machinery gratis whereby 5S.07o republican
voters (mure than the number who voted tor
Hughes) rewarded a simple-minded Chicago
self-seeker for his ambition to be recorded as
a vice-presidential nominee of a sovereign
state before a national convention.
The presidential primary proved that rS.
076 republican voters in Oregon were sil 1
sheep. They voted without pride or purpose
simply marking an X in front of the one name
printed under the vice-presidential head.
Yet. nearly all of these same voters cast
their ballots for Hughes, and thus contributed
directly to his nomination and possible elec
tion.
This experience will probably result in some
amendments to the presidential primary law:
so these silly sheep voters can be protected
from opportunities to make their state ridicu
lous. The much-berated legislature will have
the job of working out the remedy.
What is needed is an adoption of the partv
convention plan to the ideais of the primary
The voters of Oregon will not swallow a con
vention's recommendation merely because it
was recommended, but thev will be glad to
have a representative partv convention nuet
and make recommendations, so thev can be
criticised and perhaps followed. The Oregon
Vote.
U. S.
ENGINEER CAPTURED BY CAN
ADIANS
O. P. M. (ioss, consulting engineer of the
West Coast Lumbermen's Association and
the Association of Creosoting Companies of
the Pacific Coast, has entered on his tempo
rary detail special service for the province of
British Columbia. He will promote the Use
of creosoted wood block paving in cities of
the Canadian Northwest.
Some weeks ago the Canadian government
officials addressed a diplomatic note to the
West Coast Lumbermen's Association asking
for Mr. Goss' service covering a period i
weeks. The request was immediately granted
but the trip was delayed owing to important
engineering work which the association- at
that time, had under way in Oregon.
EVERY-DAY PHILOSOPHY?
If you don't like the United States of Amer
ica better than any other country on the face
of the globe why not return to the country
you love more? ,
Never give advice to another that you are
not willing to take yourself.
Don't advocate war unless you are willing
to let your boy become a soldier.
Before you find fault because "Christianity
has failed" in some certain particular, just asl.
yourself how much your personal action iua
have been responsible for failure in some other
direction.
VALUE OF A PETITION
A business man of Birmingham, Ala., drew
up a petition asking the city council to appoint
a committee to hang every minister of the
gospel in town. He circulated the document
among thirty of the city's leading citizens, in
cluding many influential bankers, merchants
and manufacturers. And twenty of them
sgned it.
For the fiscal year ending June 30. 1915.
5.0K4 persons were killed and 6,44-S injured
while trespassing on railroad tracks, an awful
loss. While we are living in a new country,
and it is a great convenience to be allowed to
walk railroad tracks, is it worth the lives it
costs? We enact laws to protect people
against impure food, adulterated and alcoholic
drinks, but we allow them to be killed b
thousands. Is not a law in the interests of
society, prohibiting trespassing by walking
along on a railroad track, sorely needed in this
state ?
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The Divine
Sarah Bernhardt
in the famous of
lltlSTAN lllltYUU
it
JEANNE DORE
n,,. detalU of tint Hlory urn ho In
tensely triiKlc that '"' 1,",H "" "l',lM' I
,,., ilernhar.1t fotild portray ht
,m)Ul,.,. role no let..-, a in hit rent ofj
,,,,, ..minio ,l facial eM.teMHlon
ontd depict I'efopt tint rainera the
fullne s of I ho manifold pioedhlllt It's
In .l,olopla Inc. which I ho rolo ex
art.".. This Hill-Mid Photoplay hi In all
c..-:elilialr the acme of fame arllni;
;in, I .. 1 1 i-1 r ami (lie arrival of Hit
pliollipl.l la "HI" I" I"'""11 I''''
elilliitiiin al ilii' Hi 'i'iiealer on
Jul) !l as the ni'isl important period
f tlie mi rent season dr that theater.
A Memphis (Tenn.) newspaper, the News
Scimitar, explains that "one reason why Amer
ica is great is that she leads all countries in the
production of coal, iron, steel, copper, silver
and oil. She is also the champion produecr
of cotton, corn, wheat, oats, hay and tobacco,
and is second to South Africa in the produc
tion of gold." It might have added other rea
sons are its great fraternal beneficiary soci
eties, its free public schools, its great state uni
versities, its churches, and its building and
loan associations, and still left many other
good things unnamed.
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S'-KNK KltOM TIIK I'!. AY "JKAN'NT. IHiliK"
Till'
licnjamin Harrison McKec, born in the
lute House during the administration of his
grandfather, Benjamin Harrison, has reached
New York, having been invalided home from
the front, where he has been fighting "some
where in brance." Remember "HabyMcKee"
of I larrison's timo ? 1 In umc ,,,,;. .. ..i
,v , l.,,, i t- 'i cii.irai ter
in officialdom at Washington from lK'j to'
WHITE SOX
TAKE TWO GAMES
I Continued from Pare 1 )
Win 1 1 1 :t Mi I
Alt. II. I'd. A. K
Kiiiiiins. ::ii 4 u i ;t o
llonalihton. im :l 1 0 t t)
lirai kelt, c ;l 1 7 I 0
llateinan, Hi 4 ill) 0 U
HeoTO', rf :i I 0 0
Krii k:-.on, i f 4 U 0 0 0
(Iril'fitli, 1) ;S 0 2 :( 1
Calvin, If :t 0 2 0 1
Kotula, p 3 0 1 4 0
Totals ::u r. 24 12 2
St. Ileleim :', 0 0 0 0 0 U U 2
llils I 0 U U U 0 u u 0 -- 1
Wood Innil 0 110 1 OOUII I 2
Mils 1 0 0 1 0 I) 11 0 ;i-f.
Summary: Karneil ruim St. Ilel
ens 1, Woodland 2. Left on haseK
St. HeliMirt 2, Woodland 4. Threo-
hase hit Stcvcnu. 'I'wu-iia.si! hlU
CeorKo, llntekett. Donhlo play
.Monro to Melionald to Sh.-veiiH.
Slruek out Ity Salve.. n, 12; hy Ko
tula, C. I law; on lialhi - Off Salveson,
oil' Kotula, :t. Ilalk - -Kotula.
Time - 1 :f.o. Cmpiri' Mel. In.
!'"iond name --
SI. Helen,
All. II. I'D. A. i:
"all, rf 2 II 2 II 0
ArinsprlKer. lh . . . . 2 I 5 (I (I
Stevens, 2I :t 1 1
.lamieson, c :t 1 n i(
Midioiiald, ss :i 11 0 2 0
Krakke, :',li ;j n ,1 1 1
''' rry, i f 2 0 a 0 I
Peterson, If ;( n t,
Monro, p 0 U 0 0 0
SillVOBOII, p 2 2 0 i) 1
Total:; v;; 5 21 ,.
Woialhind
,,, All. II. I'O. A. K.
itohiiiuM, :iii 4 1 1
Kotula, s 4 1 ()
llraekett, r ., , (( ( (J
llati:man, I li 4 r, () ()
(,i('"r'!' rr 4 2 I 0
hrlekson, ef 0 n I
tJrit 1 ii li , 21. :t i) o
(,iillvi"' lf 2 0 11 i) 0
lionalilson, p 4 ., ()
''""tiilr. s 1 s r. I
Kl- ':leiin 2 0 0 () 0 (I 1 -
.2 1 0 I I) () I .5
y""111""' 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 '
lll,H 12 0 2 11 1 - s
Summary: Karned run:i--St. -oiiH
2, Woodland 1. ,e,t ,;,.,v
St.. Helens f., Woodland 10. Three
Imsi; hit -SalvoHon. Struek out-'-y
lioiinhlKoii, !l; ,y Salvesoi,, 1
a.se on l.allH-orf Halv ,, ; ()ff
Donaldson, 1. Ilalk - Salv.m,;,,. ' ,.
niiiKH pitched hy Moore, 1; ,y Salve
'-x-.n. v.mtw,, . m,;:
N'oU's of llie (;aines.
In hoth bchhIoiis ISrnklco playe,! sl
hang up nanui at ll. third Hlatlon
It wan qulto nmuHlim- to u,,, f'1(i
lo boo blBHUvo iiluyli. "ItlnK u,om
'"' ';0Ky" wlt" Kol,,'H grounder.
iMiiuia iiitio (oijined 1 h.
that the Sox . ft it all to S.ilvi'son
The.'o was v ry little "pep" de.plat )
The Hetond came waa better as :l.ere
was route work to do all '.he time.
Ill the fll:;t t;.lllie, or the 2" Woiel
laml pUlollls, tw.-lve retired hy the
rlillieout loutiv Salvesoii had e
ce li in control
K :u!a really deserve.; a no hit
SMItie, fur the l euterflelder nil jllilKed
Steve's hard delve. It wan fur, tiiiate
for the Sn that ho did, olle'rnlse
llallacli'n tats would have liei-n
smeared with a coat of v. hi'ewash.
Just to show (lie hrenks: Wood
laud i;ot five hl.s off of S.ilveain
tthllo St. Ileli lui one
hliiKlo off of Kotula. Still
ena won dm name
Help, Help - IN, lice, police.
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